Buy Zithromax Without A Prescription, About a week ago I was fortunate enough to sit in on a discussion about web design being held by a group of design students. The group had been brought together in order to help share information about designing their online portfolios, zithromax iv infiltration. Zithromax for bladder infection, One of the students – and a previous intern – had asked me to attend to help explain web design to the group. Obviously I was flattered by the request, azithromycin zithromax paypal, Do not combine zithromax, but also dumbfounded about how to describe such a vast subject in a short amount of time. Aside from mentioning my newest project The...

Over the last couple of months I have read a few posts on Ideas on Ideas, in which Eric discusses the unprofessional and annoying behavior of some public relations companies. He was receiving these emails because he is a blogger and has received a level of authority as a result. I too have found myself in a similar situation.
Over the past few weeks I have seen my inbox steadily fill with these unsolicited email messages, and have rightfully sent them straight to the trash folder. However it was not until I was reviewing the comments on my recent article “30 Holiday Gift Ideas for Creatives and Geeks” that I saw the first example of a PR firm so clueless that I was just...

Web design may be a relatively new concentration in comparison to the other forms of design, however there are a number of things it shares in common with publication design. The long standing practices and theories of publication design can be applied to web design to help create more interesting and effective sites. By grasping these traits you can create sites that have an sophistication far superior than your competition.
Templates and style sheets
Both web and publication design share a rigid design template that determines the overall look and feel of the content. Great publication design creates a template that allows the designers to find creativity and flexibility...

OK not really, but they are they very solid and full of inspiring work (Note: The title is meant to be sarcastic, some readers did not get this so I just wanted to clarify). I guess I have just been seeing way too many ridiculous list titles floating around twitter lately, but have no fear Positive Space is not turning into a list blog. Speaking of the future of positive space, a new design is currently in the works so check it out.
***end rant*** So without further introduction, here are 25 great graphic design portfolios that have caught my attention over the past 6 weeks.
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One thing that I have never quite understood as a web designer is the willingness to make something far less successful visually in order to gain a minimal increase in usability. For example, removing 80 pixels of vertical whitespace in the header of a homepage design. Yes, removing the whitespace would bring the content up higher, but at what cost? Why are usability and other functional concerns of such absolute importance? Is it not possible to design something that is usable yet not as far as it could be, and have aesthetics be considered a worthwhile tradeoff? I think so, let me explain.
USABILITY IS NOT BINARY
Somewhere along the line designers have created a set of...

It seems like every day I read about a new web app however none that have caught my attention like CushyCMS. In fact I was desperately seeking a way to easily supply a simple CMS for a client that needed to edit just a couple of small space on their brochure site. The hard part about this particular client is that they have had the same hosting plan for over 5 years and for some reason have no database. This made finding a simple solution somewhat hard, that was until I stumbled upon CushyCMS today.
WHAT IS CUSHYCMS?
CushyCMS is a web app that allows you to content manage multiple sites and pages. Overall it is a relatively limited content management system compared to some...

How many times have you attended a meeting and realized that by the time left you have actually moved backwards in your progress on a project. Because of this and other reasons, I have come to the conclusion that meetings are just utterly pointless. I have come up with a few reasons that hopefully may help you see my side of the situation.
Everyone has their own agenda. Its seems that everyone enters a meeting with different goals. This would be OK except for when these ideas conflict and then you spend more time in a power struggle than actually accomplishing anything.
They are extremely expensive. This is something that I actually learned in college. Take the wages earned...

Every week I read a new article about how our educational system needs to change to prepare our youth for a drastically different job market. However, I have yet to read much about how creative fields of study fit into this future, at least not in education prior to college.
For a long time people have been asking young people if they can face working their entire career and never reach success. Ask and high school student who want to be artists, musicians, writers, or designers what responses they have received upon telling adults what they hope to become. These adults, by nature, probably only want the best for the students, which very often means mitigating risk for them....

It has taken me almost an entire year to compile, but I have finally created a followup entry to the original “30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download” Article. The original was the most popular article I have ever posted on this blog receiving well over 500,000 unique views – fueled by twitter referrals and stumble upon. I believe that this collection is even better than the first so please enjoy these links from some of the web’s most well respected authors.
Free eBooks & Manifestos
Get a Design Job! – AIGA & IDSA
Taking Your Talent to the Web – Jeffery Zeldman
279 Days to Overnight Success – Chris Guillebeau
The...

I’ve had countless design discussions with employers, contractors, and clients, but one in particular remains firmly lodged in my mind to this day.
Some time in 2002 I had just come off designing what, at the time, I felt was my best work to date. It was beautiful, inventive, it had personality, and it fit the brand perfectly. No one would find fault with it, I had nailed the brief. Score one for team Dave.
BEING ABLE TO ADMIT WHEN YOU ARE WRONG
I sent along the comps to my boss. He loved ‘em. Thought they were perfect. I had pulled it off yet again. Except… “the contrast is a bit low, isn’t it? I know you designers like your work bleeding into the screen, but...